THE SAUCY SPARROWS-
A Pair Have Built Their Nest in a Very
Noisy Place.
It’s a noisy place for a home, but a
" pair of busy. English ' sparrows have
chosen it. Just where the alley "‘L”
Railroad crosses a street, on the outer
edge of one of the big iron girders, the
nest is built. It is made of straws in-
terwoven with horsehairs" and twigs.
and it has {the usual fluffy appearance
of a sparrow’s nest. Every few minutes
all day long the trains roar past on the
track above, jarring the structure, but
Mrs. Sparrow doesn’t seem to mind it a
bit. She has already laid part of her
eggs, and 'Mr. Sparrow often sits on
the iron rail near her side, and tells all
his friends about it in the loudest of
chirps. '
Perhaps this sparrow family enjoys
being rocked to sleep by the jarring of
the trains, and perhaps the corner of
the iron girder is regarded as a particu.
larly safe place for a home, because no
boy can get to it without a good deal of
dangerous Climbing. The workmen on
the “L" road rather like to ' see the
birds about. They say that where the
birds build-and there is more than one
nest on the iron structure-accidents
will not occur.-—Chicago Record.
WHIST PLAYING IN AMERICA.
“Cavendish" Surprised by the Skill which
is Widespread in This Country.
Henry Jones, the Englishman who is
known to whist players all over the
world as the court of last resort under
the name of Cavendish,"says that whist
is more studied here, and the general
run of players are more proficient than
in England. “On my first visit,” he
says, "I met players as they came. and
I will confess that on more than one oc-
casion I suspected that the best man
who could be found had been selected
to meet me. I was much astonished to
learn that this was not the case, be-
cause it is not exceptional to meet at a
card table in our English clubs four
good players—men who understand
American leads or any of the modern
refinements of the game. The average
Englishman is content to play his game
as it-is handed down to him by his
grandfather, while the American opens
his mind at the top, and is content with
nothing which'his observation does not
commend to him as being the best; he
.. is always seeking to improve.”
This high praise of American players
from a recognized authority probably
~'v.-i‘.'l surprise many people who have
taken it for granted that England was
the home of scientific whist. Whist has
been developed here by American meth-
ols, and one of the players who are here
to attend the congress is a woman who
supports herself by teaching scientific
'whist to classes in cities.
Christian Science Forbids.
Miss Chudoba, of, Grammar School
No. 62, New York, is a Christian scien-
tist, and has declared that her religious
beliefs will not admit of her teaching
little children how alcohol, as embodied
in intoxicating liquors, is ruinous both
to body and mind. The fact that such
teachinghas been made compulsory by
the State law does not disturb Miss
Chudoba's resolution. She contends
that any such teaching is directly op-
posed to her religion, and that after
having obeyed her orders and taught
little children about the devastating ef-
fects of strong drink, she has come to
the conclusion that such teaching has a
bad effect on her pupils, and that they
come to school suffering from all sorts
of imaginary pains and aches. Miss
Chudoba believes that a child will so-
quire a taste for alcohol from merely
reading about it, and she does not pro-
pose to lead children to drunkards‘
graves- ’
The Husband as 3 Prop.
“After all, man is a generous be
ing.”
“Yes,'he is; Inever saw a husband
yet who wouldn’t let some other man
teach his wife to ride a wheel.”
Cholly Got It Himself.
“N ice dog! Have you taught him
any tricks since I was here last?"
“Oh, yes; he will fetch your hat if
you whistle,” said she, sweetly.
Difficulty.
Mrs. Musicus—Did you have much
trouble in learning to sing so beauti-
fully? .
Miss Frankly—Yes; especially with
the neighbors. -—Sketch.
film} 1?.
“Men are so conceited; when a man
gets to be forty he thinks that every
woman that looks at him is in love with
him.”
“Yes, but not because he is conceited,
it is because he knows how irrational
WIsoZSM OF THE moI‘A‘N ELEPHANT.
He Knows When He HasBeen .Swindled
. and Vigoronsly Resents It.
One day. says a writeoof English mil-
itary experience, a heavy gun stuck in
the muddy bottom of a‘ stream, and the
tandem elephant was unhooked to shove
behind, or lift the muzzle of the gun
with his trunk. But he would not; he 7
only bellowed and swayed uneasily,
shifting from one foot to the other in
the sticky mud. At last. with piteous
shrill trumpeting, he touched the sharp
point of the iron right on the muzzle.
“He says he’s afraid of hurting him.
self, sahib,” explained the mahout.
“Well,” answered the ofiicer in jest,
“tell him to spoke the whee .”
“Promise him backsheesh, sahip, and
he will.”
“Very well.” -
The elephant carefully, found a secure
footing, curled his trunk round the
lower spoke, and made the wheel re-
volve; then the shaft , elephant put in
his .ponderous weight and the gun slow-
ly rose out of the mud and rolled up the
opposite bank. " ' ..
The triumphant mahout demanded
backsheesh for his Hooshiar Hatti (wise
elephant),
“You scams»!
sheesh for yourself.”
“No, sahib, I'dare nd‘: cheat him, and
if you don’t give him 'back'sheesh he
will remember you are no gentleman
and will never work for you again.”
“All right,” said the ofiicer, tossing
the man a couple of rupees in succes-
sion. "How shall I know you don’t
cheat him?”
“Come and see him feed this evening.
sahib.” '
, That evening by moonlight the officer
was summoned to see Hooshiar Hatti
eat his supper. The elephant was sway-
ing to and fro, fanning himself with a
branch, and round the fire stood huge
chupatties——flat cakes of flour, butter
and sugar—purchased with the back-
sheesh for the Hooshiar’s supper. The
mahout took up one of these cakes and
oflered it to the wise one, who weighed
it carefully in his trunk and then depos-
ited it with a“ satisfied smack in his raw
looking mouth.
“N ow, sahib, this second chupattie
is light weight. See him find it out.”
The elephants are accustomed to a
certain ration weight, and when the
Hooshiar took this cake by the edge an
angry twinkle came into his wicked lit-
tle eye, and, ' quick as lightning, he
slapped the mahout in the face with the
leathery mass.
“See, sahib,” cried the man in glee,
“I dare not cheat him 1” And he picked
himself up and ofiered a larger chupat—
tie. “Here, you foolish one! Did I
ever cheat you? This one is over-
weight.”
The elephant understood and ate in
forgiving tranquility. London Public
Opinion.
Financial Discussion.
“Riches,” said the boarder who dear-
ly loves proverbs, “riches have wings.”
“I think my money has feet.” said
Asbury Peppers.
Feet?”
“Yes; i know it often runs out.”—~
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Boston’s Heroes Conquer Every Solid
.and Liquid Peril. 1
When Boston’s crack military com
pauy went over to England, this inter-
. estiug account of some of their doing?
was cabled to American newspapers:
More than one puzzled but well mean
ing Englishman, after encountering the
wonderful corps of soldiers from Boston,
and reading the descriptions of the po ,
litical typhoon at Chicago, .has sought
out friends in the American colony here
and begged them to explain these
strange products of the great Western
.Republic.
Not that the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company need any explana
tion. They have shone with .prestine
and undiminished efiulgence since they
set foot, in friendly but armed invasion,
upon British soil. Not a man among
them has faltered in the face of the al-
most unheard of tests which hourly
have been put upon them.
, Every American was proud of them,
and every Englishman looked on in
wonder this morning when they rallied
in full ranks outside their Hotel Cecil
barracks. Most of their entertainers
of the past few days were undone, limp
pale and exhausted, after the week’s
terrific engagements. But the Ameri-
can veterans lined up in serri‘ed ranks
both taller and broader than when they
arrived. , ,
Their new helmets had shrunk so that
they failed to come down low on their
foreheads, as a week ago, and every
sword belt had been loosened to the last
emergency notch. But they were still
the same noble corps which sailed out
of Boston harbor a fortnight ago. They
were still undaunted, invincible, incom-
parable among the wearers of martial
uniforms in these days of military su-
premacy.
Only one thing’ rankles in any Ancient
breast, and that is one of the Hon.
Chauncey Dep‘ew’s jokes, which some
members of the corps fear their enter-
tainers may take seriously. Mr. De- '
pew explained in his speech at the
King’s Hall banquet that there were
three kinds of military bodies, the reg
ular army, which fights, the National
Guard, which fights when called upon,
and the Ancients, who would not fight
under any circumstances.
The visitors from Boston need not
fear that any Englishman who witness-
ed the way in which they conquered all
solid'and liquid perils, will, for an- in-
stant, question their courage in the face
of mere powder and shot.
Thackeray's Opinion.
- “The little ills of life,” says Thacker-
ay, “are the hardest to bear. What
would the possession of a hundred thou-
sand a year, or fame or applause, avail
to a gentleman who was allowed to en-
joy them only with the condition of
wearing a shoe with a couple of nails in-
side it? Al happiness would disappear
and plunge into that shoe; all life would
rankle are 1nd those nails.” And as lit-
tle things have the power to annoy,
they have also the power to comfort and
help. .. , ,
One day a visitor to the school, find-
ing young Sydney Smith during play
hours absorbed in the study of Virgil,
gave him a shilling, and with it a few
words of sympathy and praise.
“Clever boy, clever boy I” exclaimed
the stranger. "That is the way to con-
quer the ' world.”
Such unlocked for encouragement
brOke like a gleam of sunshine across
the dreary and troubled life of the neg-
lected boy, and roused within him a ca-
pable heart the laudable ambition for
distinction.
Sydney Smith never forgot that man,
and to the end of his days praised his
deed. The stranger went his way little
dreaming of the good his pleasant words
had accomplished, while the lad he had
cheered soon afterwards became prefect
of the school.
washington's Embarrassment.
“But Washington took pains to suc-
ceed,” says a writer in Harper’s Maga-
zine, in telling of George Washington’s
home life in Virginia. He had a great
zest for business. No details escaped
him when once ‘he was in the swing of
the work. He was not many years in
learning how to make the best tobacco
in Virginia, and to get it recognized as
such in England.
Six months before Washington’s mar-
riage he had been chosen a member of
the House of Burgesses for Frederick
County, the county which had been the
scene of adventure in the old days of
surveying in the wilderness, and in
which ever since Braddock’s fatal route
he had maintained his headquarters,
striving to keep the border against the
savages.
The young soldier was unused to as-
semblies, and suffered a keen embarass-
ment to find himself for a space too
conspicuous in the novel parliamentary
scene. He had hardly taken his seat
when the graciOus and stately Robin-
son, Speaker of the House and Treasurer
of the Colony these twenty years, rose
to the bidding of the Burgesses, to
thank him for the services of which all
were speaking. .
This sudden praise, spoken with gen-
erous warmth there in a public place,
was more than Washington knew how
to meet. He got to his feet when Mr.
Speaker was done, but he could utter
not a syllable. He stood there, instead -
hot ,with blushes, stammering all a-
tremble. from head to foot. .
"Sit down, Mr. Washington,” cried
the Speaker. “Your modesty is equal
to your valor, and that surpasses the
the power of any language that I we
sess.” ‘
The Gas Meter. '
“Everything is union and eight hour
in this town,” said the resident labor
man, “from the street railroads to the
gas works.” ‘
“I’ll bet, though,”,said the visitor,.
“that'the'meters, are working overtime
same ,as usual.” '
And the resident had to give in.—-"ID-'
dlananoiis Journal. " , 'I '
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Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for your
troubles? If not, get a bottle now and
. get relief. This medicine has been par--
'ticularyly adapted to the relief and cure
of all Female Complaintspexerting a
wonderful direct influence in giving
strength and tone to the organs. « if you
have Loss of Appetite, Constipation,
Headache, Fainting Spells, 'or are Ner-
vous, Sleepless, Excitable, Melancholly
and are troubled with Dizzy Spells,
Electric Bitters is the medicine you need.
Health and Strength are guaranteed by
its use. Fifty cents and 31,00 at E. P.
Weed’s Drug Store, Norwalk, and Mon-
roe’s New Canaan.
Sheriif Hawley will take an entire
respite from business and to-day leavc e
the state for a vacation until the courts
open in September. . '
‘ . Condensed Testimony.
Chas.~B. Hood, Broker and Manufact-
urer’s Agent, Columbus, Ohio, certifies
that Dr. King’s New Discovery has no
equal as a Cough remedy. J. D. Brown,
Prop. St. James Hotel, Ft. “Jayne, Ind.,'
testifies that he was cured of a Cough of
two years standing, caused by LaGri'ppe,
by Dr. Kings New Discovery. _B. F.
Merrill, Baldwinsville, Mass., says that
he has used and recommended it and
never knew it to fail and Would rather
it than any doctor, because it cures.
Mrs. Hemmiug, 1‘22 E. 25th St. Chicago,
always keeps it at hand-and has no fear
of Croup, because itinstantly relieves
Free Trial bottles at E. P Weed‘s Drug-
Store, Norwalk and Monroe’s New Ca-
,uaan. -
Labor Umon and the management of
me Fa .. Grounds for the lease of the
grounds tor the Labor I)ny picnic on
September 7th, has been signed and
delivered. .
Relief in Sin; Hours.
Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis.
eases relieved in siz hours by the “New
GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY
CURE.” This new remedy is a great sur-
prise on account of its exceeding p’rompt,
ness in relieving pain in the bladder
kidneys, back and every part of the urin-
ary passages in male or female. It re-
lieves retention of water and pain in pass-
ing it almost immediately. If you want
quick relief and cure this is your remedy.
gold by E. P. Weed, Druggist. Norwalk,
onn. .
Cashier Green is now doing Teller
Hoyt’s duty who is off on his annual va-
cation ior a fortnight, but then like the
Gaznrrn the old Fairfield County Bank
is so aged that it can “go it alone”
when need be.
Mother’s Delight With Hand’s Colic Cure
HAVERHILL, Mass, 11-30-’95.—Hand
Medicine Co.—“I Wish to say that I pro-
cured a sample bottle of Dr. Hand’s Colic
Cure and am delighted with it. My baby
is now four months old, and has suffered
every day of her short life with col-
ic. I have tried almost everthing ever
heard of, but can truthfully say that any-
thing I have tried cannot compare with
Dr. Hand's Colic Cure. Yours respect-
fully, Mrs. G. G. Miller, 38 Arch St.”
Sold by all druggists, 25c.
The Park City Yacht club left Bridge-c
port this afternoon on its first annual
cruise. The objective point was Port
Jefferson. Seven power and seventeen
sail boats will take part ,in the cruise.
Try Allen’s Foot-Ease
A powder to be shaken into the shoes.
At this season of the year your feet feel
swollen and hot, and get tired easily. If
you have aching feet, new shoes or tight
shoes, try Allen’s Foot-Ease. It cools
the feet and makes walking easy. Cures
and prevents swollen and sweating feet,
blisters and callous spots. Relieves come
and bunions of all pain and gives rest and
comfort. T ry. it to-day. Sold by all
druggists and shoe stores for 25¢. Sent
by mail for 25c in stamps. Address,
Allen S. Olmstead, Le Roy, N. Y.
The Bridgeport Y. M. C. A. Wheel
club will take a run to this city to-night
starting at 6 o’clock. It was to have
been made last night but the rain pre-
vented. '
Snakelnto I'our Shoes
Allen‘s Foot-Ease, alpowder for the feet.
It cures painful sweliiugs of the joints
and instantly takes the sting out of come
and bunions. It’s the greatest comfort
discovery of the age. Allen’s Foot-Ease
makes tight-fitting or new shees feel
easy, It is a certain cure for sweating,
callous and hot, this, aching feet. Try
it to-day. Sold by all drnggists and shoe
stores, 25c. Trial package free. Ad-
dress, Allen S. Olmstead Le Roy, N. Y.
Town clerk Herbert R. Smith went
to South Norwalk this morning to bid
the yacht Regina and its cargo of happy
ladies and gentlemen au revoir.
Buckiin’s Arnlca Salve .
The Best Salve in the world for Cute
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheum
Fever Sores 'lI'etter, Chapped Hands
Chilblains, orns and all Skin Erup
lions, and positivelycnres Price. or no
Payrcquired. Itis guaranteed to give
perfectsatisiaction,or money refunded
Price250ents per box. For Sale e,
E. P. Weed, Norwalk and Monroby
New Canaan.
The funeral of the late Deputy Sher-
iii' J. W. J ohnson, will be held from his
former home in Bridgeport, to-morrow
afternoon.
Mother’s Find Nothing to 15un Dr. H and’s
Colic Cure. '
WATERBURY Conn. , *. 4-2-’96—-Hand
Medicine Coz—Dear Sirsz—“I am using
Dr. Hand’s Cough and Croup Medicme
and Colic Cure for my children and find
nothing to equal them. They 'work
like. magic. I would not be Without
theinin-imy house. The little ones love
Dr. Hand’s Colic Cure and cry for it ; it
relieyes them almost instantly. Mrs.
Frank38mith, 22 Wood St. At all drug-
gists, 25. , . ' ; ' ,_
. The people have long since learned that
the most disagreeable medicines are not flec-
‘essarily the best. In fact, as a rule, they are
not. \Vhat is wanted is something mild and
sure,- such as Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera
pleasant to'take when reduced with water
and sweetened. Then it is acknowledged
everywhere to be the most successful remedy
in the world for bowel'complaints. Ask any
number of druggists for ‘the best remedy
they have for diarrhoea and fully nine out
of ten will recommend Chamberlain’s. In
speaking of this medicine, Mr. B. B. Bufi‘um
of Friendsville, Susquehanna Co., Pa., says:
“ Vle have used it in our family for ain in
the stomach, colic and diarrhoea an found
it to be a most efi’ectiveremedy.” For sale
. . rby E. P. Weed, druggist. :
The contract between the Central '
and Diarrhoea Remedy. That .is really.
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